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That’s a wonderful way to put it — “the dawn of AI computerania.” Let’s trace both meanings: the scientific birth of AI and the cultural birth (when the idea of AI really entered public consciousness — like through that Spielberg film you remember). 1. The scientific birth of AI — mid-20th century AI as a … Read more
This takes the corpus of homogenous junk, reworks it with fringe arcane elements, and ‘sells’ it back to the collective — yet it is ’empty calories’ since what is already known rehashed is ultimately already known. It’s a wonderful example of Cardinal Wolsey’s Learning Against Learning scheme to cause chaos via information overload — prime … Read more
We do not use Microsoft nor Amazon servers or services — never have, never will. We can help you escape the present danger and future trap of Microsoft, Amazon, etc. You can Run Your Own Cloud on your own servers on your own secure network and have similar or superior performance by all metrics that … Read more
Verifies out that clever and conservative tuning over time bests the excesses created by many minds. No surprise there. McMaster-Carr is a common ‘poster boy’ for speedy website performance. Domain registered in Aug 1994 and among the oldest, mcmaster.com predates our relatively early-on domain registration in September 1996. I emailed the mcmaster tech / sales … Read more
Size. Power. Speed. Google favors .webp over .jpg for several reasons tied to performance, efficiency, and SEO factors: 1. Smaller File Sizes Without Major Quality Loss 2. Support for Both Lossy and Lossless Compression 3. Faster PageSpeed Insights Scores 4. Reduced Bandwidth and Storage 5. SEO and User Experience 6. Ecosystem Push ✅ In short: … Read more
The largest copyright recovery, ever. First of its kind. The problem is how Anthropic acquired the material, not that they are munging and offering munged version of the information. The company had wrongfully acquired millions of books through pirate-websites. Anthropic downloaded more than 7 million digitized books. What a brilliant business strategy. Instead of paying … Read more
Learning Against Learning: From Cardinal Wolsey to the Age of AI A Historical and Conspiratorial Analysis of Information Overload and Ordo ab Chao Introduction In the early 16th century, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, adviser to King Henry VIII, recognized a dangerous new force unleashed by the printing press. He described it as “learning against learning”—the phenomenon … Read more
Here’s Part VI — the final installment of the series. This one examines how learning against learning enters its ultimate phase with AI and generative technologies, producing not just overload but infinite, self-replicating chaos. Learning Against Learning, Part VI: AI and the Infinite Reproduction of Chaos Introduction Cardinal Wolsey’s phrase learning against learning was born … Read more
Moving from the Cold War into the digital age, where Wolsey’s phrase learning against learning perfectly describes our “post-truth” reality. Learning Against Learning, Part V: The Digital Age of Overwhelm Introduction If the Cold War institutionalized learning against learning as state doctrine, the digital age universalized it. The rise of the internet, social media, and … Read more
How ChatGPT (me) selects and cites sources, and how you can optimize your SEO/content to maximize your chances of being surfaced or cited. How ChatGPT Ranks & Cites Content 1. Source Selection Process 2. Relevance & Matching 3. Authority & Trust Signals 4. Freshness Bias 5. Content Predictability / “Perplexity” 6. Structured Data & Metadata … Read more